Example sentences of "[pron] [was/were] [vb pp] [noun sg] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Well , towards the end of 1990 I was appointed artist in residence at the Tate Gallery in Liverpool . |
| 2 | I was taken prisoner of war at Saint Valerie for a few of my friends in from Edinburgh who were taken prisoner of war . |
| 3 | They took their seats on canvas chairs which were placed side by side on the strip of red tiling , as if they were about to be photographed or to review a marching column . |
| 4 | History layered upon history in almost geological strata , within the levels of which were preserved corpse upon corpse upon corpse — so that the upheaving rockface of history seemed a veritable conglomerate of compressed cadavers , human , abhuman , and alien , a cosmos-spanning coral reef composed of innumerable crushed skeletons … |
| 5 | Care of mentally ill , mentally handicapped , elderly , and elderly mentally disabled people was grouped by the report under category A , which was given priority for health boards ' spending . |
| 6 | I was taken prisoner of war at Saint Valerie for a few of my friends in from Edinburgh who were taken prisoner of war . |
| 7 | He added that the freeing of Americans and others who were held hostage by Dignity Battalion gunmen would be ‘ a priority for us today ’ . |
| 8 | At the 1913 Birmingham meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science she was elected president of section K ( botany ) , thus becoming the first woman ever to preside over a section . |
| 9 | In 1885 she was appointed lecturer in psychology at Westfield College , London . |
| 10 | A member of the first Dáil Éireann , 21 January 1919 , she was appointed minister for labour . |
| 11 | In 1889 she was appointed demonstrator in botany at Newnham College , and along with her colleague Marion Greenwood she organized the Balfour laboratory , whose direction she took over in 1899 . |
| 12 | In 1922 she was promoted professor in Swahili and the Bantu languages , the first such chair in the British Isles ; she then established the School 's diploma in Swahili studies ( 1924 ) , the first qualification of this kind in a British university . |
| 13 | Viktor Korovin , who was elected director of Uralmash by its workforce last summer , says that its ‘ financial situation is very complicated ’ , by which he means that few of the company 's heavy-industrial clients can afford to pay for the machinery that has been delivered to them . |
| 14 | In a late November Cabinet reshuffle , Community Development and Culture Minister David Bowen was moved to Agriculture , Food and Fisheries , replacing Harcourt Lewis who was appointed Minister of State in the Prime Minister 's Office . |
| 15 | Other Cabinet members included : Nepali Congress members Marshal Zullum Sakya , Mahendra Narayan Nidhi , and Yog Prasad Upadhyay , who became Home Minister ; United Left Front members Sahana Pradhan ( the Nepali Communist Party leader , who took on the portfolio of Industry and Commerce ) , Jhal Nath Khanal , and Nilambar Acharya ; two prominent non-party opposition figures , Devendra Raj Pandey ( an economist and leader of the Human Rights Organization of Nepal , who became Finance Minister ) , and Mathura Shrestha ( a professor of medicine , who was appointed Minister of Health ) ; and two members nominated by King Birendra , one of whom was Rai Majhi , who became Minister of Education , despite protests by students and teaching staff . |
| 16 | Soisson became Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development , in place of Louis Mermaz , who was appointed Secretary of State for Relations with Parliament and Government Spokesman in place of Malvy . |
| 17 | The seats included Sope 's own and that of President Fred Timikata who was appointed head of state after the imprisonment of his predecessor , a relative of Sope 's who was implicated in the events of 1988 . |
| 18 | The particular object of his fear becomes clear from advice given to his son , Taskopruzade 's father , who was appointed kadi of Aleppo by Selim I. Although Taskopruzade 's father actually went to Aleppo , he resigned before taking up his duties as kadi , remembering an injunction of his father 's : " Do n't become a kadi . " |
| 19 | We were given evidence by Age Concern England . |
| 20 | In a mean of thirty percent of patients across the region there was evidence o well there was written evidence of counselling for retrograde ejaculation and this varied from zero to just under seventy one percent . |
| 21 | We needed this treasure to exchange against cloth and cattle and spices — and as ransom to exchange against our men when they were taken prisoner in war . |
| 22 | For the next fortnight it was examined section by section . |
| 23 | It was called Tit for Tat , and was submitted by Professor Anatol Rapoport , a well-known psychologist and games theorist from Toronto . |
| 24 | It was called Bird of Freedom . |
| 25 | When the line came through here , it was built inch by inch through solid rock . |
| 26 | For like millions of other readers he was following the slow northward progress of the escaped eagle as it was reported day by day in most of the popular newspapers . |
| 27 | As already suggested , it was paid participation in war which saved a large number of the nobility and , in certain cases , helped them improve their social status . |
| 28 | He was given benzylpenicillin with cefotaxime and transferred to the intensive care unit , where he subsequently made an uncomplicated recovery . |
| 29 | In the end he was given office as Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster . |
| 30 | Woods worked directly under Michael Balcon when he was appointed head of production in 1947 and was responsible for employing Ardizzone , Bawden , Barnett Freedman , Peake , Minton , Piper , Searle and others , to produce posters and other advertising material . |